General Ulysses S. Grant

Historical marker location:

538 E. Main Street, Jackson, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of Main Street and Walden Street, on the right when traveling east.)

The city of Nashville played an important role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The city was the site of the first sit-in protest in the United States, when a group of African American college students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown Nashville in 1960.